# Enhancers

Enhancers are similar to plugins.<br />
While plugins operate on the style object **every** render, enhancers **enhance** the renderer **once**.

## Use Case

They are used to add, remove or modify functionality. They can also be used as a wrapper for change subscriptions e.g. for logging or metrics reasons.

## Using Enhancers

To use plugins we need to add them to the renderer configuration directly. You can do this by passing a configuration object using the `enhancers` key while creating your renderer.

```javascript
import { createRenderer } from 'fela'

const config = {
  // It must be an array to be able
  // to pass multiple enhancers
  enhancers: [
    /* your enhancers */
  ],
}

const renderer = createRenderer(config)
```

## Official Enhancers

Fela already ships with a set of useful enhancers. Check out [Introduction - Ecosystem](intro/ecosystem#enhancers) for more information.<br />

> **Note**: Official enhancers are wrapped by a configuration function by default.

## Custom Enhancers

Let's imagine, we would like to add a function to the `renderer` that returns the number of unique CSS classes rendered.<br />
We can get that number by counting all cache entries with a `RULE` type.

```js name=getClassesCount.js
function getClassesCount(renderer) {
  const rules = renderer.cache.filter((entry) => entry.type === 'RULE')
  return rules.length
}
```

We can now utilize this little helper to write our enhancer.

```javascript name=classesCount.js
import getClassesCount from './getClassesCount'

export default function classesCount(renderer) {
  renderer.getClassesCount = () => getClassesCount(renderer)

  return renderer
}
```

### Usage

```js name=renderer.js
import { createRenderer } from 'fela'

import classesCount from './classesCount'

const renderer = createRenderer({
  enhancers: [classesCount],
})

renderer.renderRule(() => ({ color: 'red' }))

renderer.getClassesCount()
// => 1
```

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## Related

- [Renderer Configuration](advanced/renderer-configuration)
- [List of enhancers](intro/ecosystem#enhancers)
- [API Reference - `enhance`](api/fela/enhance)
